Political Quotes

“let me talk about some innovative things that schools have done. For example, in some of the districts I am familiar with, we have always heard of night school students, but they are using their buildings, because why build new buildings if they are not utilizing them? So they are using them for night students. Those students who may be more motivated by going out and working during the day and coming in and getting their high school diploma during the night in an abbreviated program, schools are doing that. So even in those opportunities, we are seeing overcrowding on the high school level. So there are other activities, and the gentleman mentioned other activities. We have great ROTC programs, great band programs; obviously athletics, if one is coming from Texas or North Carolina, I guess. But every way we can reach that child to keep them in school, to encourage them to be in school, again, no matter what we do, any of the extracurricular programs and use it as a motivator.”